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Photo of Luther Byrd

Title: Photo of Luther Byrd
Description: Photo of Luther Byrd; Luther N. Byrd; Historian, born in 1905, genealogist, coach, Newspaper Editor of the Mount Airy Times from 1929 - 1939, reporter at the Mt. Airy Times from 1940-1946, Teacher and Coach at Westfield School from 1929-1948, principal of Westfield from 1945-1948, was referred to as the "godfather" in girls basketball, taught at Elon College for 30 years from 1949-1979. He died in December 1982 at the age of 77.
Subject: Westfield (N.C.); Luther Byrd; Mount Airy (N.C.); Surry County (N.C.)
Source: Luther Byrd Collection at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Format: still image
Type: photograph
Identifier: Mta_LB_i19461.001_mam
Coverage: Mount Airy (N.C.)
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Contributor: Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Is Part Of: Luther Byrd; Surry County (N.C.); Westfield (N.C.)